Well people, what does one say now? Well i would like to congratulate myself on one year of updating this blog, and a now successful, 3 and a half years of an interest in Photography. I would like to thank so many of you for supporting me, i know i have been rather frustrating at times with my constant uploading og the same stuff. So here we are again, back to BOP as i like to call it. Well it's not back to Bop, this is a new style, i am really interesting in adopting in my portraiture. I hope you like this, it's practically clean and unedited, well that might be kind of a lie, because at the end of the day i have done some (three or four hours) work to this one. I though, as you will notice have been minimal, am using lightroom now for my organising and editing in portraiture, it's not too hot for other stuff, i.e. Landscapes.
Ann and Perry - my biggest supporters, thankyou both for encouraging me as i have begun my journey into the twisted and extremely technically complicated (may be cos i'm just an idiot) world of photography. The past year has been full of experimenting for me, and i am now beginnning to have an understanding of things like aperture, ISO, Exposure comp, this is through spending rigorous hours in camera shops on DSLR's taking pictures of DSLR's (:
I have been confirmed my place on the Photography course at college, so will be off to there in September, however i have eight weeks of fantastic exams now. This will be my last post for a while but as it is a year, at some point within the next week, i will post everyday, they may not be the most fantastic photography, but they will give you an insight to the life i lead. I want to thank you all for following me here at BOP.
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Well hi, everyone. I really do apologise for not being on for the last two weeks, hectic time, again, as will the next couple of weeks with the start of my GCSE's. For all my great american friends, my key skills exams and future-dependant grades :) But i am working hard to post. Hopefully, i will have my DSLR by july :) and it's final the Sony will be my path. I would like to thank all of you ever so much for supporting me over the past how ever long? Actually, it's getting near a year, all thanks to Ann this blog started :) Well i'll do my one year speach when we get there eh? This one is another experimental shoot, tried not to over edit this one, but the flash on the skin drove me mad. Looks a bit ghostly now, but lets see what you think. Well i will keep posting as often as i can, have a couple of images which i might send your way soon, but there not the best in detail, they were taken on my 'new' phone "camera" and by god is it evil. You have to hold it for thirty seconds once you press take otherwise the image blurs. Grr. But i fight on with the phrase, it's not the camera, it's the photographer behind it. But to all who believe that: I'm deeply sorry there's a limit. Well as Ann puts it, when i get my DSLR: 'I'll be flying.' Well for now my chums of the photography clan, enhoy and have a good easter. Lots nof chocolate tomorrow, if my blood type hasn't turned to chocolate and my skin isn't as chunky as marshmallows, i'll post again :)
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I work hard to bring you this remote message - if you want me to post more, hire me a hit-man. =)
I promise you all as soon as i 'solve' this argument, well war, well abololishon with my mum, i'll be able to post again, but she's 'confiscated' (stolen) MY laptop. And i have nothing else :(
I am having many troubles at home at the moment and as such cannot post because i have no access to an internet enabled computer, sorry, Troy xx
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So I'm back with my first post in a while, and here it is, sorry the qualities a bit naff, but my camera battery died, and i had to use phone camera (mums - "borrowed" her phone.)
When i get my DSLR i'm gonna re-visit this and hopefully get some better shots.
I fixed the bloody camera! Just hit it alot in a stress and it fixed, i've noticed i get a bit of a black line son the bottom of pics now but i've just cropped it out, will start posting again tomorrow. Am gonna pop out and some point today and grab some pics, i have the perfect idea in mind! And i worked out how to fix the shaking thing with the camera i'm just put a huge lump of bluetac on the bottom to give it a bit of weight! I'm such a genius and long live bluetac!
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...Are useless if you don't mean them, So i do mean this when i say: 'I'm sorry for the lack of posts in the last few days and upcoming months, i now have a bust camera and no phone camera so poop really, i'm gonna by a new camera asap but i might just wait tilll July for my SLR, either way i will do my best to get stuff to you but what the heck! I would also like you all to wish me luck just had my final weekend rehearsal for the production i'm in called junk. It's not too late to get tickets to tuesday night, because wednesday evening has sold out and and the wednesday afternoon has been cancelled due to well due to. :)
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Here's a before and after piece on Laura, i hope you can all appreciate the minor editing and the portraiture styling in which i've done it. This was done with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, one of the two new toys i've added to my photoshop collection :) Hope you Like this and please please please comment.
I'm putting this to you cos i dunnoes what you'll think of it, it's very experimental, this was done about two years ago when i had just started photography, it was with the first editing software i ever had (Microsoft Photo Editor) which is now extinct. It was done by combining four of the 8 special filters withing the program, and i call it graffiti, because its me and laura on a brick wall, please comment on this, whjatever you wanna say, just so i can know what you think.
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This is Vimy Ridge memorial, close to the trenches I showed you yesterday this is a memorial that was erected in the name of all the Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in world war one, it really is a peaceful and beautiful place, I hope I have managed to conduct you this in my pictures.
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Okay this was taken in 2007, october on my old old phone camera, unfoyrtuneately when my computer broke last year i lost all these images part from the tiny versions that were on my ipod so i've done my best with the Fractals software plugin i have in PS to improve it, however its not fab, i'm going add lighbox to this but it won't work fantastically cos there's niot much of an image, however i hope you can see the idea and beauty that i see in this picture, even if it is slightly pixelated.
This is an edit of one the photo's that Sunny's done for mine and hers new shared blog [CLICK HERE] Do comment :) Please :) And check mine and Sunny's new blog :)
All images displayed from the bottom of this page now have the 'lightbox' function on them, click on the image and a larger clearer version of it will pop up.
